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FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ALFRED COX OF CHICAGO 



IN MEMORY 



HENRY BALDWIN STONE 

Born, September 4, 1851. 
Died July 5, 1897. 














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PREFACE. 



'T*HE following pages contain the prin- 
-■■ cipal articles which appeared in the 
literary and technical journals about Henry 
Baldwin Stone, and also some of the resolu- 
tions and memorials adopted by the organi- 
zations of which he was a member. They 
have been brought together, substantially 
without alteration or correction, because it 
was felt that they were worthy of preserva- 
tion as showing the appreciation of Mr. 
Stone's many sterling qualities by the com- 
munity at large. Many of the articles which 
appeared in the daily papers were not con- 
sidered of sufficient permanent value to 
include with these. 

When one stops to consider the never- 
flagging interest in history, biography, and 
fiction, an interest centered in the study of 
human character, one must conclude that 
these brief sketches will be of real and per- 



manent interest to Mr. Stone's many friends. 
Strong characters are so little understood, 
and, indeed, so often misunderstood, that it 
must always be a pleasure for us to know 
what others have found in the character of 
our friend. It must open our eyes to unap- 
preciated depths even in a character we have 
admired. 

We read these pages and say to ourselves 
Paul's oft quoted words, in his Epistle to the 
Philippians : " Finally, brethren, whatso- 
ever things are true, whatsoever things are 
honorable, whatsoever things are just, what- 
soever things are pure, whatsoever things are 
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; 
if there be any virtue, and if there be any 
praise, think on these things." 

F. A. D. 

Chicago, July i, 1898. 



An Editorial from the "Chicago Evening Post," 
July 6, 1897. 

It is difficult to describe the mingled feel- 
ing of amazement and horror with which this 
community heard of the shocking death of 
Henry B. Stone at Nonquitt yesterday. Of 
all the prominent men in Chicago he was 
about the most unlikely victim for such a 
typical Fourth of July catastrophe. It would 
have been hard to find a cooler, more cau- 
tious, sagacious man than Mr. Stone. All 
of the training of his youth and the experi- 
ence of his manhood would seem to preclude 
the act which resulted in his instant and 
terrible death. The lightning of our savage 
and dangerous method of celebrating our 
national anniversary struck the one whom, 
of all that knew him, it would have been 
insult to warn. 

To those who knew Mr. Stone by reputa- 
tion only the announcement of his untimely 
death was almost as bewildering a shock as 
to his friends and intimates. It was every- 
where received with awe and regret. Men 



who have been accustomed to play with fire- 
works all their lives, stood aghast at a 
tragedy which they had time and time again 
invited themselves. They shuddered as they 
recalled how often they had put their lives 
in similar jeopardy against the warnings of 
reason and undeterred by the instinct that 
makes an animal suspicious of an extinct 
squib. To all it seemed a life needlessly 
and cruelly sacrificed upon the annual altar 
of patriotism. 

To the entire community, the death of Mr. 
Stone is the loss of one of its most active 
and broadly useful citizens. He had been 
associated for many years with such large 
affairs as the management of the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and the Chi- 
cago Telephone Company, and in every 
relation proved himself a man of singular 
energy, force, and ability. He took a promi- 
nent part in the directory of the World's 
Fair, and his associates in that great under- 
taking bear universal testimony to his 
remarkable keenness of insight and readi- 
ness of resource. Mr. Stone had taken an 
active interest in the artistic, musical and 
intellectual development of Chicago. 



But the loss of the community cannot com- 
pare, in its stunned and deep bitterness^ with 
that of Mr. Stone's immediate family and 
close friends. To them the blow comes with 
unrelieved suddenness and horror. The 
public can only extend to them its full sym- 
pathy. 



From the "Western Electrician," July lo, 1897 
(published in Chicago). 

On July ist Henry B. Stone, for seven years 
the most influential exponent of the Bell 
telephone interests in the West, resigned the 
presidency of the three companies with which 
he was connected. He intended to devote 
some time to travel and recreation before 
again plunging into that industrial activity 
for which his talents so conspicuously fitted 
him for leadership. He journeyed to his 
summer home in Massachusetts, near New 
Bedford, to celebrate Independence day with 
his family and to rest before putting into 
execution his plan of travel. There, at the 
seashore, he met death on July 5th, in the 
full prime of useful manhood, by the unex- 
pected explosion of a bomb in a fireworks 
display. 

The manner of death was distressing. The 
newspapers give the account. Mr. Stone was 
entertaining a party of friends with a display 
of fireworks. The principal piece was a mine, 
which was so devised as to scatter, when ex- 



ploded, a number of vari-colored tissue-paper 
animals and make them fly through the air. 
Suddenly, without warning, the bomb he 
was about to set off exploded prematurely, 
causing instant death. The skull was frac- 
tured and the face mutilated by the explosion. 
Mrs. Stone, with the two sons and two 
daughters of the family, were, with the 
assembled guests, witnesses of the terrible 
accident, which occurred late in the fore- 
noon. The physician who was summoned 
with horror-stricken haste could do nothing. 
The funeral services were held in New Bed- 
ford, Mass., at the home of Mr. Stone's 
mother, on July 8th. A number of Chicago 
gentlemen attended. 

Mr. Stone was a man of great energy and 
ability, and he was remarkably successful in 
the direction of affairs. Perhaps no man 
in Chicago had a higher reputation for keen 
business sagacity, for quick insight, for well- 
ordered judgment. His career is interesting 
and instructive. The son of a leading lawyer 
in his native town, Henry B. Stone was born 
in 1852 in New Bedford, Mass. He was edu- 
cated at Exeter Academy and at Harvard 
University, graduating from the latter insti- 



tution with a bachelor's degree in arts. The 
young collegian had an aptitude for practical 
affairs^ for mechanics, and he secured em- 
ployment in a machine shop of the Waltham 
Watch Company, afteward working in the 
Boston Ordnance Works. His next step in 
life proved to be an important one, for by it 
he entered the railroad business, in which he 
made a commanding success. He went West 
and secured a position with the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Company. He began 
at the bottom of the ladder, in the machine 
shops at Aurora. He worked as a mechanic 
at first, carrying his own dinner-pail, and 
living in the same manner as his fellow- 
workmen. But he had an unusual aptitude 
and applied himself unceasingly. Step by 
step this college-bred mechanic worked his 
way up, until he became general manager 
and second vice-president of the great Bur- 
lington system. During the important loco- 
motive engineers' strike of 1888 Mr. Stone 
fought the men resolutely, and he came out 
of the grim contest victorious. The struggle 
engrossed the attention of the entire country, 
and it made Mr. Stone famous. It is thus 



described by a writer in the " Chicago Times- 
Herald " : 

" As soon as the strike was declared by the 
engineers Mr. Stone took up the gauntlet 
and displayed consummate ability in meeting 
their measures at every point. He at once 
opened recruiting offices in the eastern states, 
and secured the services of several hundred 
engineers formerly in the employment of the 
road. In order to improve their skill he 
opened a school, where the use of the air- 
brake and other similar appliances was taught. 
So great was his interest in the contest that he 
was not willing to be out of reach of the dis- 
patches at night, and for a long time he slept 
on a cot in his office. It was largely due to his 
masterly judgment that the final result of the 
year's fight was a victory for the road — a 
victory so complete that, when several years 
later (in 1894) the great railroad strike under 
Debs was inaugurated, the Brotherhood of 
Locomotive Engineers showed little inclina- 
tion to participate." 

Mr. Stone resigned his position with the 
railroad company soon after the settlement of 
the strike and spent some time in travel. In 
1890 he cast his lot with the Bell telephone 
interests, and up to July ist, as has been 
stated, his was the commanding figure of the 



Bell Company in the West. He was presi- 
dent of the Chicago Telephone Company, the 
Central Union Telephone Company and the 
Bell Telephone Company of Missouri. He is 
believed to have known more about the inside 
management and policy of the American Bell 
Telephone Company than any other man in 
the West, and his counsel was highly esteemed 
in the inner circle in Boston. He was not, 
of course, a telephone pioneer, like the late 
F. G. Beach, but his marvelous executive abil- 
ity and far-reaching business generalship 
made his services of the greatest value to the 
western telephone companies. When he an- 
nounced his resignations he was entreated to 
remain, but he persisted in refusal. Perhaps 
his retirement may be considered significant 
of the changed conditions of the telephone 
industry. At any rate, a gentleman who was 
on terms of close intimacy with Mr. Stone 
makes this statement : " He resigned because 
he felt that he had completed the organiza- 
tion of this work. He could not bear to be- 
come a mere operating man. His ambitions, 
which were about to be gratified, were far 
higher than such a life could bestow ; and if 
any one ever had a right to entertain am- 



bition, he had, judghig by the marvelous 
record he had made by his forty-fifth year, 
when he died." 

Mr. Stone had much to do with the build- 
ing of the World's Fair. He was the chairman 
of the committee on grounds and buildings, 
which was the real body that constructed the 
exposition, and thus, while he held that place, 
he was, perhaps, the most important officer of 
the local directory. He co-operated sym- 
pathetically and intelligently with Mr. Burn- 
ham, the chief of construction, and was, 
indeed, one of the strongest men in the body 
of notable men that formed the governing 
board of the Chicago corporation. 

Mr. Stone was a member of the Chicago 
Club and of several other social and literary 
organizations. For many years he had made 
his home in Chicago, and, a type of a high 
standard of American citizenship, his death 
is a distinct loss to the community. A wife 
and four children are left. 



From "The Railway and Engineering Review," 
July 31, 1897 (published in Chicago). 

The readers of the Railway and Engineer- 
ing Review have been apprised, through the 
medium of the daily papers, of the sudden 
and tragic death of Henry B. Stone on July 
5th. His prominence in the railway world for 
a number of years, and his influence for 
good in the community, is such as to warrant 
us in making a somewhat extended review 
of his interesting character and brilliant 
though short career, beginning with his work 
as a foreman in the Aurora locomotive shops 
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- 
road in 1877 and ending with his resignation 
as second vice-president in 1890 to take the 
presidency of the Chicago & Central Union 
Telephone Companies, and act as the western 
representative of the American Bell Tele- 
phone Company. Even in this compara- 
tively short career, Mr. Stone had exhibited 
such qualities of energy, persistence and 
quick perception of essential details, coupled 
with courage and moral rectitude, as few men 
possess. 14 



His influence as a railway man was felt 
throughout the countrj', and this is attested 
by the men who met him in meetings and 
conventions. He took an important part in 
the General Time Convention, and in the 
subsequent meetings of the American Rail- 
way Association in their work of adopting 
the "standard code" of rules. The men 
who came in contact with him, whether in the 
committee room or the general assembly, 
bear testimony to the immense influence 
which he carried with him in deciding vital 
questions by the sheer force of his clear 
comprehension of important details and his 
determined insistence upon them. 

As a railway officer, he was a strict discip- 
linarian, and though exacting in his require- 
ments from others, was no less exacting with 
himself, but, on the contrary, set a high 
example of devotion to duty, and, for that 
reason, with all who were ready to render 
energetic and faithful service, he was a man 
looked up to as little short of a " hero." In 
the struggle of the Burlington Road with the 
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and 
Firemen he was brought prominently before 
the eyes of the public. Those who were 
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familiar with tlie conditions which led up to 
that conflict, know that the struggle was 
inevitable, because the men, led by false 
prophets, headstrong leaders, had made 
demands which the officers of the company 
could not concede. On Mr. Stone fell the 
brunt of resisting the fight which was waged 
with intense bitterness for many weeks. The 
body of the engineers and firemen who 
struck, had admired Mr. Stone, and he had 
done much for them in the past, but they 
found themselves arrayed against him simply 
because they feared to resist the strength of 
the organization they had themselves created. 
Every one knows the result of that conflict, 
but every one does not know and cannot 
realize the strain on the man who, fighting 
for his employers and for a principle, got 
little sympathy even where he had a right to 
expect it. Soon after the termination of the 
strike in 1888, Mr. Stone was made second 
vice-president of the Burlington system, but 
in 1890 resigned his position, quitting the 
profession in which he had shown a remark- 
able capacity, for what seemed to him, an 
even larger field of usefulness — that of elec- 
tricity. His versatility and persistence in 



mastering complex and intricate details 
quickly made him the most important man 
connected with the Bell telephone interests 
in the West. 

During this conection with the telephone 
companies he became a director of the 
World's Fair, and, with characteristic energy, 
threw himself into the work, taking a very 
active part as chairman of one of the most 
important committees. On July i last, his 
resignation as president of the telephone 
companies took effect, and he was ready (as 
few men ever are) for such new work and 
responsibilities as might come to him. Hence 
it is not strange that his friends should feel 
that, in the remarkable fatality which over- 
took him so shortly after, he was called by 
the Great Master for work more important. 

Mr. Stone carried into railroad work a 
mind singularly well trained to the intricate 
necessities of the period of development in 
which he lived. Born in New Bedford, 
Mass., in 1852, he went as a boy to Phillips' 
Exeter Academy where he was fitted for 
college. In 1873 he graduated at Havard 
University and took a year's course in 
mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts 



Institute of Technology. With a remark- 
able aptitude for mechanics and mathematics, 
he plunged into actual shop work, spending 
a year in a large cotton mill at Waltham, 
Mass., then upwards of a year in the gun 
foundry of the South Boston Iron Works, 
and from there he went to the shops of the 
Burlington road at Aurora. Entering as a 
thoroughly equipped mechanic, he quickly 
rose to an important foremanship, and subse- 
quently became master mechanic, then super- 
intendent of motive power. 

To the hosts of friends and acquaintances 
who can no longer look into his keen and 
penetrating eyes and never again feel the 
pressure of his cordial and straight-forward 
grasp of the hand, Mr. Stone's death, in the 
very mid-day of useful manhood, will be a 
great loss, but to friends and the community 
as a whole, the feeling of personal loss is 
absorbed in the feeling of sympathy for the 
terrible shock to the family and relatives on 
whom the blow falls with greatest force. 



From the "Railroad Gazette," August 13, 1897 
(published in New York). 

Mr. Stone's influence in railroad affairs 
was very great, and, as you doubtless know, 
he took a prominent part in the General 
Time Convention, later in the adoption of the 
Standard Code and in the advocacy of signals 
and safety appliances — for example, air- 
brakes. He was a man of much force and 
energy, of remarkable quickness of percep- 
tion of essential details in complicated mat- 
ters, of singular and unquestioned courage 
and moral rectitude. 

He was one of the early railroad men of 
the new school, and carried into railroad 
work, at an important period of its develop- 
ment, a mind singularly well trained to the 
intricate necessities of that period. 

He was born in 1852, went as a boy to 
Phillips' Exeter Academy, graduated at Har- 
vard University in 1873, took a year's course 
in mechanical engineering, mathematics and 
shop work at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology in Boston, then a year in a large 



machine shop at Waltham, and upward of a 
year in the gun foundry of the South Boston 
Iron Works. From the latter place he came 
early in 1877 to the Aurora locomotive shops 
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, enter- 
ing as a trained mechanic and in the position 
of a foreman (not general foreman). His 
rise in the motive-power department you are 
familiar with, and also his resignation in 1890 
of his position as second vice-president to 
take the presidency of the telephone com- 
panies. 

His connection with the strike of the engi- 
neers in 1888 is not generally understood. It 
is supposed by some that he brought it on by 
being too arbitrary, or on account of his un- 
popularity. Any such view is wrong. Mr. 
Stone was very popular with the enginemen 
and shopmen. He was their hero and cham- 
pion, and had done much for them in the 
past. As students of the labor question 
must know, the storm had been brewing some 
time, the brotherhoods felt themselves irre- 
sistible. A few men holding influential 
places had little by little made greater and 
greater demands until the final one which 
brought on the fight with the Chicago, Bur- 



lington and Quinc3^ Henry Stone bore the 
brunt of that fight most manfully, against 
heavy odds, and with scant sympathy from 
those from whom he had some right to 
expect it. He fought a good fight in the in- 
terests of his employers, toward whom he at 
all times felt a high sense of duty, and he 
fought, too, for a principle, and settled for 
many years the question of whether the 
owners of a railroad or the employes shall 
dictate its policy. 

We have said nothing of Mr. Stone's con- 
nection with the telephone interests, nor of 
his energetic work as a World's Fair director, 
because other journals have dwelt upon that. 



From the " Railway Master Mechanic," for August, 
1897 (pubHshed in Chicago). 

Mr. H. B. Stone died at Nonquitt, Mass., 
July 5, from the results of injuries caused 
by the explosion of a piece of fire- 
works. It is difficult to become reconciled 
to the passing away of such a man, at such a 
time, and in such a manner as he was called. 
Mr. Stone was one of those rare men who 
are brought into the world with a mission, 
and his mission was evidently to promote all 
that was good and true in life. He was young 
at the time of his death, only forty-five, but 
he had already made his way in the world 
with most remarkable strides, and on all 
sides, as he worked his way up from small 
beginnings, he left the impress of his noble 
character. His associates vie with each 
other in relating instances in which some act 
of his, some earnest word from him, had led 
them to higher aspirations. Mr. Stone's 
most notable work, perhaps, was that which 
he gave so enthusiastically to the service of 
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway. 



No greater testimony could be given of the 
completeness with which he identified himself 
with that property than to say that up to the 
day of his death he was constantly talked 
about on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
road. Even since his death questions per- 
taining to that road and its management can 
hardly be discussed without bringing up Mr. 
Stone's name. This was very strikingly 
shown on an inspection trip recently made 
over the line, when, in discussing various 
physical conditions of the road, Mr. Stone's 
name was constantly brought into the dis- 
cussion. This shows how closely he identi- 
fied himself with everything with which he 
was connected. An old-time associate, in 
v/riting to us of Mr. Stone, says : " Mr. 
Stone was a very unusual man, and had he 
lived, would doubtless have made his mark 
in history. When the American Railway 
Association was eking out a precarious exis- 
tence at various times, it was Mr. Stone's 
practical arguments and convincing talk that 
held the association together. When he 
retired from railroad work we all knew how 
impossible it was for him to remain inactive. 
He soon became one of the directors of the 



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World's Fair, and was one of the most active 
men on the board. He was vice-president of 
the Commercial Club of Chicago, and it was 
only because he directly opposed it that he 
was not made president of the club. Mr. 
Stone's reason for not wishing to be presi- 
dent of the club was that he was not finan- 
cially fixed to meet the demands of such a 
position. It must have been very flattering, 
however, to think that among so many broad- 
minded, progressive, successful men, as are 
collected in the Commercial Club, that a 
young man like Mr. Stone should be selected 
and almost urged against his judgment to 
preside over them. I could tell you a good 
deal about Mr. Stone's railroad work and the 
talents for generalship that cropped out with 
him when great difficulties arose. Myself 
and others were with him through three or 
four strikes. By with him I do not mean 
sitting in the office, but with him in the yards 
and depots, and where the men were making 
trouble. We always felt very sure that what 
Mr. Stone said and did would be right. In 
anything you write you cannot praise him 
too much on this score." When he first came 
to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, about 



the year 1878, he went to work in the Aurora 
shops as a journeyman machinist. He soon 
was promoted to be gang foreman, and 
always took great interest in one engine that 
was built under his supervision. After that 
he was employed by Mr. Challender, superin- 
tendent of motive power, on the special duty 
of investigating devices and methods that 
were being looked into and tested on the 
engines. His next promotion was to be 
division master mechanic at Aurora. When 
Mr. Challender resigned, Mr. Stone succeeded 
him as superintendent of motive power, 
January i, 1880. He was made general 
superintendent in the fall of 1881, and sub- 
sequently he was made assistant general man- 
ager, and May i, 1885, he was made general 
manager. When Mr. Ripley was made 
general manager, November i, 1888, Mr. 
Stone was made vice-president. When Mr. 
Stone left the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
in 1890, he became president of the Chicago 
and Central Union Telephone companies, 
and resigned just before his death to go 
abroad for a rest. His career in this tele- 
phone work was one of brilliant success. 
Mr. Stone's handling of labor troubles on 



his road attracted wide-spread attention to 
him as a man of rare courage, executive 
ability and untiring industry. The general- 
ship here displayed was of the highest order ; 
and in the troublous times, when violence 
was resorted to, he shone at his brightest. 
No labor was too great, no fatigue too 
oppressing, no danger too formidable, for 
him to meet. The stories told of his bear- 
ing and effective personal work in the thick 
of the fray — right on the ground among the 
tracks — reveals the true greatness of his 
ability and the nobility of his character. In 
Mr. Stone's death the world loses a truly 
remarkable man. A complete story of his 
active, tireless, brilliantly successful life — a 
life that was not only terribly earnest, but 
notably sweet — would form a most excel- 
lent pocket companion for ambitious young 
men. 



From the "American Engineer, Car Builder and 
Railroad Journal " for August, 1897 (published in 
New York). 

The death of Henry B. Stone, formerly 
vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad, which resulted from an 
accident at Nonquitt, Mass., July 5, removed 
one of the men of whom any country might 
be justly proud. He was but forty-five years 
old, and his life was so full of promise that, 
had he lived a few years longer, he would, 
without doubt, have made his name still more 
favorably and widely known. A friend who 
was close to him for nineteen years says that 
he had come to regard him more and more 
as a man of exceptional ability. He was 
energetic, courageous, ambitious and indus- 
trious, and, withal, his was an uncommon in- 
tegrity ; in short, he was a type of the very 
highest standard of American citizenship. 
His railroad work, wherein his ability as an 
organizer and executive was brought out, 
was, perhaps, his greatest success, although 
he showed the same keenness and command 



of difficult situations in his later undertakings. 
His remarkable ability as an executive was 
seen in the conduct of the great Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy strikes of 1888, when 
he was general manager of that road. There 
are differences of opinion as to the wisdom of 
the policy which was then followed by him, 
but there can be no doubt of the fact that he 
put the wishes of his superiors into effect, 
and in so doing he made use in a masterly 
way of every factor which could be employed 
to carry out the purpose in hand. It must 
be conceded that there are few positions as 
trying as was his at that time, and the fact 
that in the past nine years railroad strikes 
have been so few in number must in a large 
part be credited to him. It is significant that 
one of the men who stood under him at that 
time now says : " We always felt very 
sure that what Mr. Stone said and did 
would be right." He was conscientious, 
and had the respect and confidence of 
his staff in all that trouble. His death 
cast a gloom over the employes of that 
road, though he had not been connected 
with it for seven years. The American Rail- 
way Association owes much of its present 



successful standing to Mr. Stone, and his 
assistance in carrying through the project of 
the World's Fair in Chicago contributed 
materially to the ultimate success of that 
undertaking. He was highly honored by 
the Commercial Club of Chicago, in being 
sought, among many broad-minded, progres- 
sive, successful men, as its president, but 
declined. 

Mr. Stone was graduated at Harvard 
University, but subsequently took a course 
in mechanical engineering at the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. After 
graduation he became connected with an 
ordnance concern in Boston, and, while suc- 
cessful in that line, he found that the field 
was not in every way suited to his ambition, 
and in 1878 he resigned a position which was 
lucrative in order to take a position as 
journeyman machinist in the mechanical 
department of the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy Railroad at Aurora. He was soon 
promoted to the position of gang foreman, 
and always took great interest in an engine 
that was built under his supervision. After 
that he was employed by Mr. Challender, 
then superintendent of motive power, on the 



special duty of investigating devices and 
methods that were being looked into and 
tested on the engines. His next promotion 
was to the position of division master 
mechanic at Aurora. When Mr. Challender 
resigned, Mr. Stone succeeded him as superin- 
tendent of motive power, January i, 1880, and 
was made general superintendent in the fall 
of 1881. Subsequently he was made assistant 
general manager, and May i, 1885, general 
manager. November i, 1888, Mr. Stone was 
appointed vice-president, and in 1890 he re- 
signed to take the presidency of the Chicago 
and United Telephone companies. Mr. 
Stone was a rare man, and of his life the 
chief lesson for young men appears to be the 
value of preparation by education and con- 
tinuous study, coupled with indomitable per- 
severance and energy in fulfilling the trusts 
which were reposed in him. His selection of 
subordinates was wise, and his treatment 
of them was such as to bring out all their 
best capabilities, and these are now among 
his greatest admirers and sincerest mourners. 



Resolutions adopted by the Commercial Club of 
Chicago at a Special Meeting held July 8, 1897. 

The joy and exultation with which the 
American people hail and commemorate 
their national anniversary have rarely been 
more demonstrative than they were on the 
Fourth of July which has just passed, but 
never has that celebration been marred for 
the citizens of Chicago and for the members 
of the Commercial Club by so sad an event 
as the death of Henry Baldwin Stone at 
Nonquitt, Mass., where, with a patriotic 
enthusiasm characteristic of him, he was 
joining with his family and friends in the 
celebration of the day. 

In common with his friends and the citi- 
zens of Chicago generally, the members of 
the Commercial Club feel that a sad public 
loss has been sustained, and they desire to 
place upon record, in the best words at their 
command, their high estimate of Mr, Stone 
as an unusually wise, capable and public- 
spirited citizen, an honorable and high- 



minded man^ an accomplished gentleman, 
and a genial and lovable companion. 

Mr. Stone was a fine example of the young 
man reared in an eastern home to ideas of 
refinement and probity, and liberally edu- 
cated at one of our highest universities, who 
afterwards turns his attention to affairs of 
the most practical nature, and, by simple 
industry, honesty and devotion to duty, so 
impresses his character and capacity upon 
his associates that he is successively chosen 
to one position after another of large respon- 
sibility and authority in important corpor- 
ations composed of ambitious and capable 
men. He was chosen because of his charac- 
ter and ability, and not because influential 
friends made places for him. 

Placed in many trying positions, he was 
always found firm, resourceful and courage- 
ous, but also just, charitable and considerate. 
Those who differed from him were always 
compelled to respect his motives ; and where 
he was brought into active and acrimonious 
conflict with individuals and with organiza- 
tions (as he frequently was, and especially on 
one great occasion), his evident firmness and 
justice were such that no permanent animos- 
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ity toward him personally was ever left in 
the minds or hearts of his antagonists. He 
was a man of great independence of con- 
viction and of great tenacity of purpose, 
because his convictions were founded upon 
high moral grounds and upon careful 
thought, and yet in all controversies his 
habitual bearing towards his fellows and 
associates was always so tempered by for- 
bearance and courtesy, that all with whom 
he was brought into contact, not only came 
thoroughly to respect him, but became his 
warm friends and admirers. His loss seems 
the harder to bear for the reason that he was 
still a comparatively young man, and, 
although he had accomplished much for him- 
self, his friends and the public, it was to be 
expected that the future had in store for him 
still greater usefulness and fuller achieve- 
ment. 

What might have been expected of Henry 
B. Stone in the future it is impossible to 
estimate ; he is gone, and all that remains 
possible to us who survive him, inasmuch as 
we cannot in a body attend his funeral, is to 
put upon record, in the simplest and plainest 
way, our high estimate of the companion 



and friend we have lost, our heartfelt sorrow 
and our deep sympathy for those friends and 
relatives whose pangs of loss and bereave- 
ment must be so much more keen than our 



Resolutions adopted by the Harvard Club of 
Chicago. 

Henry Baldwin Stone, Class of 1873. 
1851—1897. 

The college graduate for the past score of 
years has had the advantage of a living 
example of a man achieving success and high 
standing through clean methods and earnest- 
ness of purpose. This example has been 
Henry Baldwin Stone. His life, too short for 
the career he had mapped out for himself, 
and far too short for the needs of the com- 
munity, was complete in achievement and de- 
votion to principles. The conscientiousness 
with which he marked out the straightest 
course and then "hewed to the line" makes 
him a model for all men. He stood firmly for 
the ideals of Harvard teachings. " Veritas " — 
the truth, the whole truth, unvarnished, with- 
out duplicity — was his principle, and no son of 
Harvard was ever more faithful to it. Never 
can we forget the many manly qualities which 
marked him among men, his courage, his de- 



termination, his quick perception, his tireless 
energy ; therefore be it 

Resolved, By us, the members of the Har- 
vard Club of Chicago, that in the death of 
Henry Baldwin Stone, of the class of '73, 
Harvard men in general, and the Harvard 
Club of Chicago in particular, have lost a 
comrade and leader whose memory we should 
honor by keeping his life ever before us ; 
and be it further 

Resolved^ That these resolutions be spread 
upon the minutes of our Club, there to tes- 
tify to the high appreciation in which we 
held our comrade. 



MEMORIAL OF 

HENRY BALDWIN STONE 



Read at the Chicago Literary Club, at a Meeting 
held April 4, 1898 



TTENRY BALDWIN STONE was born 
-'■-'• in New Bedford, Mass., on September 
4, 185 1, and died in Nonquit, Mass., July 5, 
1897. In him were united strains of Puri- 
tan and Quaker blood, which combined to 
intensify qualities common to both. The 
Puritan, like the Quaker, was strenuous and 
firm, apt to consider everything in relation to 
large systems of thought and conduct, and 
hence to magnify what others might deem 
trifles into affairs of moment ; consequently 
each was ready, even on seemingly insignifi- 
cant occasions, to sacrifice upon the altar of 
principle, much that tender souls count 
precious. These traits, characteristic of 



both Puritan and Quaker, were dominant in 
Henry Stone. 

On the last day which Mr. Stone spent in 
Chicago — June 30, 1897 — one of his most 
intimate friends dined with him by invitation 
at the Chicago Club. " When we had lighted 
our cigars," writes his friend, " breaking his 
previous habit of entire reticence concerning 
himself and his career, he said : ' Now, I 
want to tell you about myself,' and then he 
gave a brief sketch of his life up to that mo- 
ment. He said he felt that it had all been a 
consistent training, and all for an object, 
too ; that he was forty-five years of age, able 
and hearty in mind and body. ' And now,' 
said he, 'I want to begin the real work of 
my life. I have ten or fifteen years of ac- 
tivity before me, and I want to use them to 
the greatest advantage. I resigned from the 
telephone presidency because I can't bear to 
go on merely administrating a completed 
thing. I must have occupation that will give 
me all I can do in the way of organization ; 
it must be a machine having large move- 
ments. I have two things that have been 
offered to me — one in finance and the other 
in railroading ; the latter is the one that will 
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open up the broadest field for usefulness to 
me, and when I return, in about four or five 
months, I think I will shy my beaver into 
that ring.' He said much more to the same 
effect, and ended, when about to step on 
the car at Twelfth Street Station : ' Well, 
old fellow ! what do you say about it all ? I 
have been giving you a good deal about my- 
self because you appreciate that I don't want 
money but do want work. Do you think I 
have done well in leaving the Telephone 
Company ? ' I answered as I deeply felt : 
' Any ambition you entertain you have a 
perfect right to follow ; your whole past 
proves that you will reach the mark, and that 
nothing can stop you.' His eyes filled with 
tears, and he grasped my hand and stepped 
aboard, and that was the last glimpse I had 
of his noble face." 

Both Mr. Stone and his friend judged 
wisely. His career up to that time had been 
a process of education which had prepared 
him for large enterprises and brilliant 
achievements. He had enjoyed exceptional 
opportunities of education in the formal and 
accepted use of the term, having been pre- 
pared for college at Phillips Academy, Exe- 



ter, and graduated from Harvard in the class 
of '73. But his real training came through 
the experiences of actual life. After gradu- 
ation, he determined to study practical me- 
chanics, and to this end entered the machine 
repair shop of the Boston (cotton) Manufac- 
turing Company at Waltham, Massachusetts. 
He continued at the work patiently and per- 
sistently for two years, and was then 
promoted to a foremanship, leaving, how- 
ever, in the spring of 1876, to grasp what 
seemed to him a better opportunity in the 
gun foundry of the South Boston Iron 
Works. The work here interested him very 
much, but he soon found that business was 
dull and would not keep him occupied. 
Notwithstanding family ties, for, in Septem- 
ber, 1874, he had married Miss Elizabeth 
Mandell of New Bedford, he determined, 
with characteristic energy and foresight, 
to embrace the opportunity of a year's 
technical training, and entered the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, 
completing the mechanical engineers course 
of two years in one year. Throughout 
this year of close study, he kept in touch 
with the progress of the work in the gun 



foundry, watching, and in a great measure 
actually superintending, the construction of 
what was at that time the most formidable 
piece of ordnance (an 8o-ton steel tubed 
gun) which had ever been built in this coun- 
try. However, despite his interest in the 
work, the prospects did not seem sufficiently 
bright to warrant his continuance there, and 
with no little disappointment he decided, in 
December, 1877, to strike out into a new 
field. He went at once to Aurora, 111., enter- 
ing the shops of the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad Company. 

His rise with the Railroad Company was 
very rapid. A man of just his tireless en- 
ergy and quickness of perception was^needed, 
and because he proved himself so well fitted 
to the work, his superiors pressed him for- 
ward into positions of more and more respon- 
sibility. Beginning as a gang foreman in the 
locomotive erecting shops, he was soon made 
assistant to the Superintendent of Motive 
Power ; then Master Mechanic of the Divi- 
sion, Superintendent of Motive Power, and, 
in the fall of 1881, General Superintendent. 
In less than five years he was again promoted 
to the position of General Manager, 



While General Superintendent, and subse- 
quently as General Manager, he exercised 
great influence on railway affairs throughout 
the country. He was soon recognized as a 
leader among railroad men, and took a very 
prominent part in the General Time Conven- 
tion which fixed the " zone " system of time 
for the United States. Subsequently, when 
the General Time Convention, under its 
present name of the American Railway Asso- 
ciation, considered such problems as the 
" Uniform Code of Rules," " Rules for Sig- 
nals and Interlocking," etc., he took an active 
part and carried great weight in the deciding 
of intricate questions by the sheer force of 
his clear comprehension of important details 
and his determined insistence upon them. 
During this period he was obliged to take 
part in settling conflicts which brought out 
the sturdy qualities of the man. In 1886, 
when St. Louis and East St. Louis were the 
centers of riots, and the entire population 
seemed to be at the mercy of a band of reck- 
less communists, he did more than any other 
one man to restore order and start again the 
wheels of commerce and industry. The re- 
markable courage and determination which 



he showed at that time proved clearly that 
he had the coolness, fearlessness and mag- 
netic power which stamp successful military 
leaders. Quickly realizing the helplessness 
of the situation, he made the bold move of 
purchasing sixty Winchester repeating rifles, 
with about a hundred rounds of ball cart- 
ridges for each rifle. He then summoned 
some twenty or thirty of the most reliable 
men on the St. Louis Division, organized a 
little company, with a commander, first and 
second lieutenants, etc., which established 
itself on the " Q." property in East St. Louis, 
keeping off from it all trespassers. The 
Company's property was located on the river 
front, the plan of it being a triangle, which 
was approached by railroads on a steep em- 
bankment. The river front was the base of 
the triangle, and the approach of the other 
roads was at the apex. At the apex a tem- 
porary fort was thrown up with ties, the men 
afterward dubbing this Fort Stone. An 
officer of the regular army subsequently re- 
marked that the position was impreg- 
nable, and that it would have required artil- 
lery to have dislodged even the small force 
of thirty men. These men, headed by 



Mr. Stone, constantly drove the mob back 
from the levee, which was the principal place 
of attack. Often before starting out on one 
of these expeditions, he would make a short 
address to the men, repeatedly urging those 
who had any fear not to feel obliged to go 
with him. On one occasion, having driven 
off a mob of several hundred men, and 
noticing the Superintendent of the Chicago 
and Alton railroad surrounded by a crowd 
at the Alton freight house, and apparently 
at their mercy, he shouted out, in the flush 
of his success, " Do you want me to drive 
that mob off?" The Alton Superintendent 
begged him to do so, whereupon the thirty 
"Q." Winchesters advanced and the mob, 
with corresponding quickness, retired. After 
Mr. Stone's management of affairs had be- 
come known, a message came from the Louis- 
ville & Nashville people, begging him to 
come to their assistance, as their quarters 
were hemmed in by a howling mob. This 
was a serious call, as, owing to the shooting 
of innocent citizens in the fusilade made by 
the representatives of the law, there had 
arisen a most intense feeling against the 
police or any who were doing the work of 



the police. In this emergency, instead of 
ordering his men out as he had done before, 
Mr. Stone called for volunteers. Everyman 
but one stepped to the front, offering his ser- 
vices. The men, armed with rifles, got on a 
flat car, and Mr. Stone, with an engineer and 
a fireman, boarded the engine. While they 
were going along one of the mob ran to 
throw a switch. Mr. Stone at once leveled 
his rifle, but the engineer cautioned him not 
to shoot, saying that he did not believe the 
fellow would throw the switch. The man 
subsequently backed away without disturb- 
ing anything, and so saved his life. Later 
the Louisville &: Nashville quarters were 
reached, all the besieged embarked on the 
flat car and were brought to the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy quarters in safety. 
Mr. Stone's account of one of these scrim- 
mages, given in a letter to a friend, reveals 
the character of the man as well as his power 
to handle a difficult situation : 

East St. Louis, io April, '86, 

I got here a week ago yesterday; the monkey 

and parrot never had such a time as we've been 

through. I mailed you to-day's Globe- Democrat, 

with a full and remarkably accurate account of yes- 



terday — you had better look it up at P. O. if you 
don't get it with this. 

Thursday afternoon, with five deputies and 
drawn revolvers, backed up at thirty paces by a 
squad of ten in line with Winchester rifles, I drove 
a crowd of eighty or more from the levee in front 
of the ferry boat. Our revolvers were double - 
action (self-cockers), and we had to use them as 
clubs, always being ready to shoot on the instant. 
1 never bounced men around so in my life, or got in 
such a heat. We would shove a man along, hit 
him over the shoulders with the revolver, and when 
he swore he would shoot us if we touched him 
again, just up and hit him harder than ever. I had 
a good lot of men, all in our service, who knew me, 
many of them old soldiers. I drilled them con- 
stantly, and could depend on their steadiness and 
not shooting too soon. We did not fire a shot, but 
were driving and clubbing for fifteen to twenty 
minutes. Fine work for a General Manager ! But 
it had to be done, and I had to take the lead. This 
was our worst scrimmage. The militia are now in 
full control and things look better, and I have had 
an-ogs-perience." y^^^.^^ 

H. B. S. 

Later in the same year came the freight 
handlers' strike in Chicago, an account of 
which, furnished by one of Mr. Stone's 
friends and associates on the road, shows 
vividly the make-up of the man : 
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" He established his headquarters at the 
Harrison Street depot. We had a number 
of men at work, principally shopmen from 
Aurora, and some stragglers that were occa- 
sionally hired. At that time police protection 
was not very good. The Haymarket dyna- 
mite disaster had not taken place, and the 
authorities generally discredited the extent 
to which the strikers and those associated 
with them would carry matters. That ca- 
lamity, however, made it evident that a ter- 
rible crisis was already upon us, and Mr. 
Stone rose to the occasion, although at a 
fearful personal sacrifice. We had learned, 
with a good deal of distress, that his son, 
Malcolm, was very seriously ill. Mr. Stone, 
however, was on duty every morning with 
the rest of us. I recollect especially the 
mingled feeling of horror at the extent to 
which the strikers and their associates were 
violating law and order, and distress over 
the fact that our General Manager was likely 
that day to lose a son who we knew had al- 
ways claimed a very large share of his affec- 
tion. I went into the freight house during 
the morning to get some instructions, and 
found Mr. Stone seated on a box in the 



middle of the freight house. He was not 
looking about much, but I could see he was 
thinking a great deal — whether it was about 
the strike or his sick and distressed family- 
he alone knew. As soon as I came up he at 
once talked about the Haymarket disaster, 
and that now was the time for each of us to 
do all we could to push the work, encourage 
the men who felt weak, and add to our forces 
wherever opportunity offered, retiring gradu- 
ally the shopmen. He talked to me in a 
rapid way for what seemed three or four 
minutes, giving me suggestion after sugges- 
tion, which I could elaborate on with the 
men. He did the same thing with each of 
his assistants, the results of which beyond 
any doubt were invaluable. On being urged 
to go home, he said that he could do nothing 
there, that his boy was in the best of care 
and had everything that physicians and 
nurses could do. He remained with us the 
entire day. His son died that evening. I 
think there are few railroad men who have 
ever shown such devotion to duty and the 
service as this." 

To leave wife and child in the very pres- 
ence of Death was a frightful ordeal, but in 
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war-time a soldier, much more a commander, 
must often subordinate personal interests to 
the demands of the service, and the Puritan- 
Quaker, discerning the importance of the 
issue, was faithful to his trust. 

In February, 1888, he was obliged to con- 
duct a very bitter fight begun by the Brother- 
hoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. 
These organizations, which had been treated 
with great consideration by all the railway 
companies and with actual servility by some, 
had become so powerful that they were ready 
to dictate, and in some cases did dictate, to 
the railroads many details of management. 
The officers of the Burlington Road and its 
directors decided that they could not meet 
the demands formulated by the Brotherhoods 
of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and 
compromise being impossible, Mr. Stone took 
charge of the bitterest fight which has ever 
been waged in this country between intelli- 
gent labor and a considerate employer. It 
has been thought by those not familiar with 
the subject that Mr. Stone was unpopular 
with the men, and that personal dislike had 
something to do with this strike. Such, how- 
ever, is very far from the truth, for Mr. Stone 



was really exceedingly popular with the very 
men who struck, and a large majority of them 
were adverse to a strike, but left their en- 
gines because they feared the power of their 
own organization. Stone, on the other hand, 
was not fighting a personal conflict, but a 
conflict of principle. The aspect of the case 
which presented itself to him was simply 
that he held a position of trust requiring him 
to look after the interests of the stockholders 
of the Company as represented by their 
directors and officers. He saw only too 
clearly the eifect of considering the demands 
of the Brotherhood leaders, who had selected 
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad 
for their test battle. After the strike began 
and as the fight grew more desperate, the 
men, who saw their chances slipping away 
from them, became more and more vin- 
dictive, threatening, in their rage, to reach 
even the extremes of violence. The 
result of the conflict is too well known 
to need repetition, and while it is not pos- 
sible to calculate just the effect of this hard- 
fought battle, certain it is that it was far- 
reaching on the railroads, on the employes 
and on the community. Stone was just the 



man needed for the emergency ; he could 
not only say to the men, " Stop ! you have 
gone far enough," but he could prove to 
them that he meant it. The men learned 
that demands exceeding the bounds of rea- 
son could be successfully resisted — in other 
words, that they were not, as they had sup- 
posed, invincible. The community at large 
learned that labor leaders were made of the 
same clay as ordinary mortals, and that there 
were among them men utterly devoid of 
character, despicable, treacherous, self-seek- 
ing, and unscrupulous in the extreme. But 
for the experience of the Burlington Road in 
1888, the railroads might not have stood to- 
gether in 1894, and the violence of that con- 
flict might have been much more wide- 
spread. It is generally conceded by railway 
men in this country that Henry Stone settled 
the question for many years to come in this 
country, whether the railways shall be dic- 
tated to by any organization, however praise- 
worthy its general object. 

In September, 1888, six months after the 
strike, Mr. Stone was appointed Second Vice- 
President of the Chicago, Burlington and 
Quincy Railroad Company, and held that 



position until May, 1890, when he left the 
railroad to take the presidency of the Chi- 
cago and Central Union Telephone Compa- 
nies. He had for a number of years been 
increasingly interested in electrical work, and 
took hold of his new position with much zeal. 
Although the work was so entirely different 
from anything he had done before, he de- 
voted himself to it with such application that 
he was soon recognized as an authority on 
telephone construction, maintenance and op- 
eration. 

In October, 1891, Mr. Stone was elected a 
Director and a member of the Grounds and 
Buildings Committee of the World's Colum- 
bian Exposition. Mr. E. T. Jeffery resigned 
the chairmanship of the committee in the fol- 
lowing spring, and Mr. Stone was elected to 
fill his place. He was also a member of the 
Committee on Transportation and of the 
'Committee on Reference and Control. The 
latter was a court of last resort, where were 
settled all disputes between the national and 
the local commissions. The Council of Ad- 
ministration was organized late in the sum- 
mer of 1892, and then became the governing 
body of the Exposition. Upon it devolved 



the work of the committee of which Mr. 
Stone was a member, leaving him little to 
do ofificialh^ His influence in the Exposi- 
tion was strongly felt as soon as he became a 
director. From the beginning, his confreres 
sought his counsel and were guided by his 
decisions. There were only two men in the 
local organization whose opinions had the 
weight of his, but neither was strong in quite 
the same direction. He was a remarkable 
organizer and administrator; luminous, ex- 
haustive and convincing in analysis and 
summing-up, but at the same time crisp and 
terse in all he had to say or write. He 
grasped conditions surrounding the national 
commission, the local organization and his 
committees, with celerity and clearness ; and 
he, more than any other man, managed to 
knit them together into final working shape. 
The Grounds and Buildings Committee 
controlled the organization and design of 
the landscape, water supply and sewers, elec- 
tric and steam power, transportation, build- 
ings, the guard, fire department, janitors, and 
many other functions, including the final 
placing and caring for all of the exhibits. 
As head of the Grounds and Buildings Com- 



mittee, his knowledge and experience were 
of the utmost value. Nearly all of the ac- 
tivities in the Exposition were in his depart- 
ment ; and it was during his administration 
that they were systematized and brought 
into order. This committee was much be- 
hind in its work when he became chairman ; 
so much so that the Chief of Construction 
and his forces were nearly discouraged, but 
difificulties disappeared like magic under Mr, 
Stone, and while he remained chairman busi- 
ness was dispatched with comprehensive 
firmness and decision. His idea of subordi- 
nation was that a man must fill his place 
and not get out of it, and that the officers over 
him must not interfere with his functions ; 
consequently, during the period when the Ex- 
position was being designed and built, he 
never made himself known in Jackson Park as 
an officer, but was careful to keep in the back- 
ground, and to work through the executive 
officer who had command in that place. 
Many efforts were made to go over the head 
of the latter, but those who tried were inva- 
riably met with the remark : " I can't take 
up your case except through the Chief of 
Construction himself. If you have any com- 



plaints to make or suggestions to offer, state 
them in writing to him, and he will bring 
them to the committee." He was a wise 
counselor and a steady backer. He felt his 
responsibility, but never unloaded it upon 
other people. His admonitions were few, his 
encouragements many and strong. He was 
in deep sympathy with the fine-art side of 
the work ; and the sculptors, painters and 
architects admired and loved him as a man 
not less than as an officer of the Exposition. 
The Chief of Construction expressly wishes 
his opinion to go on record that very much 
of the credit for the effectiveness of the or- 
ganization in Jackson Park is due to Henry 
Stone because of his wise counsel and un- 
wavering support, and that, in the retrospect 
of the Columbian Exposition, of the three 
figures looming above the rest, Henry Stone 
is chief. 

Such had been his education — exercising 
and so strengthening the qualities which 
were doubly his by heredity. His mind had 
become an instrument of precision, with a 
comprehensive grasp upon minute details 
and unusual ability to group them along the 
lines of fundamental principles. It may be 



that his sense of the importance of minutiae 
sometimes led him into undue punctilious- 
ness. A man with his power of bringing 
things to pass is apt to become careless, 
even contemptuous, of the niceties of social 
usage, but Mr. Stone came to be an admirer 
of conventionalities, scrupulousl)' exact in 
all matters of social form, taking delight in 
planning all the details of an occasion which, 
in itself, was comparatively unimportant. 
Yet this tendency also led him to new 
sources of enjoyment and culture. He first 
became interested in the symphony concerts, 
not so much because he loved music as be- 
cause he reveled in the power of the con- 
ductor to subordinate and command instru- 
ments and men for the production of 
harmonious effect, and he grew enthusiastic 
over French literature because of its mar- 
velous perfection of form and grace of 
expression. Yet polish only brought out 
the beauty of the heart of oak ; the 
manner of a Frenchman was but a velvet 
glove on the iron hand of an English- 
man. He would do his duty regardless of 
consequences to himself or others, and noth- 
ing could swerve him by so much as a hair's 
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breadth from what he believed to be the 
right path. Thus prepared, having learned 
to convert his indomitable and apparently 
inexhaustible energy into effective force, he 
was looking forward to a task which, as he 
confidently believed, would enlist all his 
strength, give scope to all his powers, and 
prove to be the real work of his life, when, 
without an instant's warning, the end came 
to all his hopes and plans, and he was gone, 
" leaving behind him the fame of the valiant 
and true soldier that has done his duty as he 
was bound to do." 

In his pocket-book, after his death, were 
found the familiar lines of Browning, which 
he liked undoubtedly because they set forth 
his own ideals, made actual, so his friends 
attest, in his consistent attitude toward life 
and duty : 

One who never turned his back, but marched breast 

forward, 
Never doubted clouds would break, 
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong 

would triumph. 
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, 
Sleep to wake. 



FAVORITE LINES 
From an Old Scrap-book. 

i^The author is not known.) 



For all of us who have communed truly with the 

past, 
Have many friends upon the farther shore 
We wot not of, and when we land, it is 
'Mongst older, more familiar, ones we stand 
Than those, the weeping ones, we leave behind. 



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